u/BittuPastol

DHA source:

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/character-and-general-cancellation-stats-31-dec-2025.pdf

Any sentence longer than 12 months (or 2 separate sentences totaling over 12 months) triggers an automatic cancellation.

Interestingly the largest immigrant group, as of now India, does not feature on the list.

Do you think it is due to the lesser perceived value of the visa (due to being granted on arrival) vs higher perceived value among other nationalities (due to the application and vetting process)?

Disclaimer: I am a Labor voter.

Have you seen the news articles recently and the posts in right wing subreddits about parent/partner visas? Yes Thats Labor.

Last week the immigration Minister Tony Burke announced a press conference on on Thursday but later cancelled it.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/05/labor-plans-migration-cuts-as-tony-burke-pulls-out-of-major-speech

This is because when Tony went to the cabinet with his proposal it got shot down by the cabinet. Because Labor apparently had an election promise to expand and expedite family visas.

https://www.news24.com.au/politics/australian-politics/home-affairs-minister-tony-burke-publicly-humiliated-after-being-rolled-at-cabinet-on-plan-to-cut-immigration/news-story/d76e226e4bd58f5b1b230260bbefa555

Now Tony is also losing ground to One Nation in his own constituency and He has to do something.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jun/11/australia-news-live-labor-coalition-one-nation-anthony-albanese-pauline-hanson-capital-gains-housing-peptides-arthritis-ntwnfb

So this playbook has come out now. They have probably hired some PR agencies to peddle how bad these visas are in the right wing online spaces. So that they can justify cutting these citing the "pressure" from right wing that they themselves created.

Important to add that Australian Immigration has always been based on family reunification and Economic benefit. Now it seems like Labor wants to trim the first part.

Labor doesn't want to touch Backpackers and NZers. So these new measures will effectively put Partners of Australian Citizens further back in the queue behind a newly created NZ citizen. NZ as a backdoor is now looking more lucrative than ever before for new migrants.

Australia used to have this 476 graduate work visa for overseas Engineering graduates who had completed their degree recently from a recognised institute anywhere in the world. This 476 visa was discontinued in 2024 by Australia.

Many people provided fake engineering degrees to get this visa and were found out later by Immigration, thus their visas were cancelled.

Australia also has a public database of all tribunal and court decisions at Austlii.edu.au

So I searched 476 visa cancellations due to bogus documents and there are 5 pages of results and guess what? Can you recognise these names? Do you see any North Indian names?

You can try yourself here: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinosrch.cgi?meta=;mask\_path=;method=auto;query=476%20visa%20bogus%20graduate%20engineering%20;view=date-latest;offset=0

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-30/midwife-hit-with-foreign-investment-fee-after-moving-from-uk/106854972

When people say Australia is racist, they're not lying.

He was later found to be a Hindu by the dept. This case is really spicy : https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FedCFamC2G/2026/1155.html

Modi ji jindabad